Top Five Vancouver Bands Portland Needs to Hear

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Knothead (pictured)This guy is ready to blow up big time. He’s a
heavy-metal-laced hip-hop artist with a real hardcore attitude like Tech
N9ne or Insane Clown Posse. Most of his lyrics are about addiction:
He’s a former meth addict who’s been sober for about 15 years.

Thistle-Stalk This band can handle anything from really
intense metal to acoustic stuff. The vocalist [James Smith] is such a
mellow, down-to-earth guy that if you just met him, you wouldn’t
recognize him when he gets going onstage.

Unruly Instinct Another harder-metal band that’s done a complete 180, going
through lineup changes and mix-ups. The band members have rewritten a
lot of their stuff and are already blowing people’s minds.

MC/BC Watching that kid [Brian Christina] evolve in his writing and
his style and everything—he’s incredible. Of all the hip-hop guys I
deal with, he’s definitely one of the most talented.

Dear Assassin This is one of the first bands I worked with when I started
doing promotion, and one of the few hard-rock bands that can draw huge crowds in Vancouver.

Travis Zimmerly is a booker and promoter with the Vancouver company Vanclocal360.